Kopito Women Group The Maasai Indigenous communities are highly dependent on natural resources, and their main livelihood, pastoralism, is threatened due to a prolonged drought season, which has caused an inability to sustain themselves entirely through livestock keeping. In addition, because of population pressure, there has been an increased subdivision of land, leaving no or …
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Labata Fantalle Organization (LaFO) The Karrayyu Indigenous people rely on pastoralism, directly connected with rain and other natural resources. However, this traditional system is challenged by the dwindling pastureland, recurrent drought, and depletion of natural resources. As a result, this system has been curtailed and can no longer function adequately due to a lack of …
Rupa Farmers Self-Help Group Pastoral communities in Northern Kenya have lost much of the livestock they rely upon for nourishment and livelihood because of the prolonged drought in the Eastern Africa Region. As a result, many are now turning to farming as an alternative source of livelihood. This initiative will support the Oromo indigenous community …
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Livelihoods Solutions International (LSI) Marta, Garda, and Maale Indigenous Peoples IPs have been experiencing unprecedented hardship caused by three consecutive years of drought. Of the three groups, the Maale communities have been hit hardest by the drought. LSI proposes to deliver emergency cash to these two Maale communities to buy food to reinforce their resilience …
Amazigh Girls Matters (AGM) The initiative proposes to translate the content of the ww.essarag.org website using the Tamazight language to increase civic education and indigenous knowledge among girls in rural areas and by strengthening the technological capacity of Amazigh girls in rural areas through teaching digital skills and creating a common platform for civil societies …
Community Empowerment and Development Association (CEDA) This initiative contributes to identifying and implementing sustainable indigenous knowledge and learning strategies through targeted interventions in three regions of Khomas, Kunene, and Otjozondjupa in the Republic of Namibia, facing multiple challenges related to climate change, deforestation, and land degradation. The strategies relate to building the capacity of the …
WAYFINDER- Ababuro Culture Conservation and Development (ACCD)
Indigenous Livelihood Innovation Organization Team (ILIOT) To transform oral tradition and cultural knowledge into formal ways for conserving herbal and sacred trees. Increased awareness of herbal and sacred tree conservation for 2292 households from Loibor-siret, more than 5000 women and 4000 men. Identified in numbers, the names of these species of herbal and sacred trees …
Femmes Pour la Dignite de Sahel(AFDS) The project aims to bring together young and adult indigenous Fulani women who have been displaced by terrorism so that they can pass on and perfect their traditional knowledge, particularly in the making of traditional beauty items and instruments, to market them and obtain income that will help them …
Action for Batwa Empowerment Group (ABEG) Poverty is rampant among young indigenous Batwa mothers in the Kanungu district due to a lack of social empowerment and training in economically viable skills. To combat this scourge, ABEG trains these young women in the following skills: garment cutting and tailoring, hairdressing, and craft making. After 8 months …